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Nature Conservation 3/2008 — 24. 6. 2008 — Nature and Landscape Management
Land Purchase for Nature Conservation Purpose by the State
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Purchases of lands to be added to the State ownership are one of the nature conservation and landscape protection tools, supporting favourable conservation status of from a point of view of natural history valuable areas, based on the Act No. 114/1992 Gazette on the Protection of Nature and the Landscape, as amended later.
The lands are mostly those located in the Specially Protected Areas under various protection levels. Except of National Parks, the purchases have been carried out by the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic: in 2001–2006, it purchased almost 1,856 hectares for 3.64 million euros. The criteria for purchasing include unique of the land, needs for special management measures to maintain the conservation goals, which cannot be guaranteed by an owner, inclusion into the European Community's Natura 2000 network or among the Ramsar Sites, necessity of regular management and of the single financial investment. The purchased lands are managed under the appropriate landscape management schemes and programmes. The expensive management in the above lands is funded from the Agency's budget and national subsidiary schemes/programmes: projects have been under preparation to be submitted within the Operation Programme “Environment”. The largest land purchased by a single application has been a forest in the Božídarské rašeliniště/Boží Dar Peat-bog National Nature Reserve (northern Bohemia) at the price of 1.2 million euros.